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Senator remembers 2015's mass shootings, one tweet at a time

Noah Nicolaisen, of Charleston, S.C., kneels at a makeshift memorial down the street from where a white man opened fire Wednesday night during a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church killing several people in Charleston, Thursday, June 18, 2015. The current brick Gothic revival edifice, completed in 1891 to replace an earlier building heavily damaged in an earthquake, was a mandatory stop for the likes of Booker T. Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Still, Emanuel was not just a church for the black community.

Murphy also slammed Congress for its inaction guns, writing in one tweet that while "America is shaken by a summer filled with gun violence...Congress continues its inaction."

He has said that lawmakers' silence on the issue of gun violence makes them "complicit" in the violence that has gripped the country.

The gun debate remains entrenched and polarized on Capitol Hill. Efforts by President Obama's White House and Democrats in Congress to push ahead with new gun control and safety measures have come up short. President Obama, though, is expected to release new executive actions on gun control next week ahead of his final State of the Union address on Jan. 12.

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